Raspberry

I hate throwing away leftover ingredients, therefore sometimes, like today, a baking day starts with scouting the fridge and my magic cupboard (aka the place where I keep all the ingredients that aren’t at risk of going stall if not kept at a certain temperature) and coming up with a recipe to use all those ingredients….

My morning walk always, but always, includes a market run. The vibe of the busy market excites me, there’s always something to catch my attention, there’s always fresh produce available and I never leave empty handed from there. This time it was lavender, beautiful fresh and highly fragrant lavender which I bought without thinking twice….

Like this:

Empire Biscuits, also known as Imperial Biscuits, German Biscuits or Double Shortbread, are sandwich cookies popular in UK, particularly Scotland. It is very similar to a linzer cookie, being formed by sandwiching 2 shortbread cookies together with raspberry jam. Nothing out of the ordinary till here, but then the cookie is glazed with a simple…

Like this:

This cake is all about leftovers. I’m talking about egg whites and frozen raspberries. I don’t like wasting ingredients, more so when it comes to egg whites. So I always store the leftover ones in the freezer in an airtight container for later use. But then I realize there’s not much to use them at since…

This is my first time having a matcha dessert and I’m impressed. I didn’t buy matcha powder until recently and I didn’t know what to expect. But the bold green tea aroma of this delicate powder own me over. Not to mention its color – I absolutely love green and I can now have it in…

Despite being my favorite cakes, entremets are very time consuming. Only someone who’s ever made one knows how much time all these layers involve, how much energy you put into a cake, how much passion it takes to make it through. So no surprise that you barely find entremet recipes out there. Not only that…